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Fri, 9/15 (B) & Mon, 9/18: Go over general info regarding Planaria experiment, begin organizing team, decide who is manager. Homework:
begin researching about planaria by doing taxonomy assignment with planaria classification due 9/21 (B) and 9/22 (F&H).
Thur, 9/21 (B) & Fri, 9/22 (F&H): Taxonomy info on Planaria due.
Wed, 9/27 (B) & Thurs, 9/28 (F&H): Go over planaria research info. Reading assignment Regrowing Human Limbs with questions to answer due Thurs, 10/5 (B) & Fri, 10/6 (F&H).
Fri, 9/29 (B) & Mon, 10/2 (F&H): Begin planaria observation lab, add notes to team research.
Thurs, 10/5 (B) & Fri, 10/6 (F&H): Homework: Read Planaria Regeneration Experiment Procedure. Come to class prepared to do this activity. Make a team hypothesis, set up a daily log for the experiment.

Mon, 10/9 (B) & Tues, 10/10 (F&H): Begin Planaria Regeneration Experiment by cutting worms, continue with evolution unit.
Teams need to check on worms, change water daily, make entry in data logs.

Thurs, 11/2 (B) & Fri, 11/3: Finish experiment, take final measurements, determine regeneration of all worms. Make final notes in logs.
Tues, 11/7 (B) & Fri, 11/10 (F&H): Turn in planaria data logs and summarized data. Begin writing up introduction and procedure for lab report.

Fri, 12/1: Rough drafts of introduction and procedure due.

Mon, 1/8 (F&H) & Tues, 1/9 (B): Go over rough drafts of intro & procedure, go over pooled data, go over final instructions for report. Guidelines: revise intro & procedures by Jan 12, finish the data percentages & statistics by Jan 19, final report due Friday, Feb 2.